Phnom Penh (FN), Dec. 10 – Rights to freedom allows people to live, work, believe, and choose the leaders they favor, and that it also allows the kingdom to prosper, Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen wrote on his Facebook on Friday to celebrate the 73rd anniversary of International Human Rights Day.

“During Pol Pot's regime (1975-1979), people did not have rights to freedom, rights to living, to food, to medical treatment, to faith, to education, rights to choose the representative, rights to expression, rights to marriage and to work. Pol Pot eliminated all kinds of rights and forced all the old and the young, men and women to overwork without medical care; the regime had killed more than three million in just three years, eight months and twenty days,” the premier wrote.

Premier Hun Sen continued that, “Following the overthrown of Pol Pot on 7 January 1979, Cambodian people gained absolute rights to freedom ever since. Rights to freedom allows people to live, work, believe, and choose the leaders they favor, and that it also allows the kingdom to prosper.
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